Contemplative Improvisational Dance Movement - Relational Ecology through Movement and Stillness in Community
Relational Ecology through improvisational movement
Welcome to Body Songs Movement Community
I’m Katriona Ilsedóttir Curry,
life-long dance-movement and improvisational arts practitioner
I’m a Certified Soul Motion Teacher, Founder of the Turtle Island School of Soul Motion & Relational Ecology, and Faculty in the Devon School of Soul Motion in South West England.
I am home again in Victoria, BC, after 20 years away, and am growing a Body Songs Soul Motion Community on the Island.
I offer classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings, locally and online.
Eairth Body Kinship; Creative Improvisation for Cultural Shapeshifting.
I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible,
to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. - Dawna Markova
I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. - Dawna Markova
Dance is for every body
Movement is an ancient wise practice running through our human lineage. Dance is for all of us. Dance movement offers homecoming to body, mind, and spirit, community, belonging, ceremony, personal healing and medicine.
As a Somatic & Expressive Arts Psychotherapist for the past 26 years, and movement teacher for 25 years, I weave the wisdom of somatic psychology and care for nervous systems into my movement facilitation. Trauma-wise practice.
I support new and experienced movers to find playful relational ease and inspiration in their dance.
I support folks who feel anxiety about dance and groups, but long to feel free dancing in community, to feel safer to rest into movement together.
My classes are rooted in Kinship and celebration of our biodiversity: biodiversity is health; neurodivergence affirming, Queer & Trans celebrating, dis/ability justice space, anti-racist, actively decolonizing space
Classes
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A teaching spell at the White Eagle Hall in James Bay, Tuesdays 6:45-8:45 pm
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Mondays from 9-10:30, beginning Dec 22nd, 2025
Register for a series of 4 sessions, or a la carte
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Workshops & Retreats
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Dec 21, 2025
At the Canadian College of Performing Arts, 1701 Elgin Street, Victoria, BC
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Training
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Stay tuned, I’m cooking up a beautiful collaboration with dear friends….
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In Person Personal Embodiment for Leadership Training, Soul Motion Level 1, begins September 2026, Co-Led by Katrina Ilsedóttir Curry and Leela Fisk, at Dartington Estate, Devon, England.
Introductory workshop March 2026
Body Songs is Movement Poetry. Replenishing, Supple Magic.
Body Songs, Soul Motion weaves the depth and nuance of somatic inquiry with the vitality of improvisational movement and the playful alchemy of creative relational dance artistry.
Movement improvisation in community is fun!… and also deepens our creativity, supports our capacity to be resourceful, innovative, and participatory in this unpredictable life and in relational dances off the dance floor. This practice is pleasurable, evokes greater suppleness in body mind and spirit, more ease in nervous systems. Outcomes may include a felt sense of presence, relaxation, joy, and increased creativity in partnerships, parenting, friendships….
Playful movement community helps us feel more at home in ourselves, more landed in our bodies, possibilities, and belonging.
want to feel more supple, real, and courageous in relationships?
more rooted in your inner strength?
at home in your body?
closer kin with your embodied creativity?
Come move with us and nourish a sense of inner belonging that can travel with you.
what people are saying
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"Katrina's enthusiasm and joy for fostering community and healing through movement is a gift. She offers gentle guidance to your own unfurling, creating space for you to blossom in your own time and in your own way. Leading by example, she illuminates an approach towards dance that celebrates aliveness, interconnectedness, sacred stillness, and the wild wonderful reaches of the self."
Julie Dillon, Professional Artist
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“I entered into the retreat not sure how to be in this violent dangerous world. Not sure what I was called to do in terms of my health, my grief, my aches. My mind was full of negative self talk....The retreat created an experience for me of returning home to myself in such an essential way. I became open to the animal I am, remembering the child who rolled in the grass, remembering the sweetness of being among the trees and the bees. I absolutely adored the movement in the room and how you DJ and how you allowed for people to find their way into the circle. there was so much spaciousness to accept your invitation. I found a pace that felt right for me...My queer body felt safe. My elder body felt safe. My Jewish body felt safe. My woman body felt safe - radical welcome - sweetness goodness all around."
Body As Earth Song, 2025, Retreat Participant, Stowel Lake Farm
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“What is the magical blend that makes for a skillful teacher and facilitator of conscious dance? Classes with Katrina have shed some light on the mysterious recipe. First of all, she brings her tenderhearted strength and vulnerability to her teaching. There's an expansive quality to her presence--joyful, earnest, compassionate--that invites a full range of self-expression. She seems to intuit when to step forward to provide structure and support; she also knows when to step back and just witness the glory unfolding on the floor. Her facilitation never feels intrusive and has a quality of respectfully deepening me into my own present moment experience. More than anything, I want an experience on the dance floor (and in my life) of getting out of my own way and, paradoxically, being fully myself--letting the infinite dance/move through me in the particularity of my embodiment. Katrina's presence and holding of space have given me a delicious taste of that experience!”
- Michael Murphy, psychotherapist
I’m so very interested in how we grow our embodied creative relational skill - with ourselves, with one another, with Earth and all our Kin. I have named this inquiry Relational Ecology.
I’m interested in how we care for the whole in a loving way and find our own place of generative contribution.
I’m interested in how we support one another to land into potency and belonging.
I value collaboration and creative practices that shift cultures of harm into cultures of reciprocity, curiosity, and shared listening.
Embodied listening and attunement, playfulness, improvisation, and dynamic clarity… all of these are ingredients in my practice.
Relational Ecology - a pathway to co-create an atmosphere of relaxation and enlivenment within biodiverse gatherings of humans being.
Dance Movement is a pleasure and liberation practice.
Drink the sky and release ripples of breath into instinctive gesture, movement phrase, pulse, rhythm, tempo changes; sense your ancient relation with the reliable support of Earth rising through the bones of your body and create intimacy with the buoyancy of gravity.
I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am an eagle playing with the wind
I am the roaring of the rain
the glitter on the crust of the snow
the long track of the moon in a lake
I am a flame of four colors
I am the whole dream of these things
You see, I am alive, I am alive
I stand in good relation to the earth
I stand in good relation to the gods
I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful
You see, I am alive, I am alive”
— N Scott Momaday
“Movement partners the dynamics of the earth. Momentum, centrifugal force, and gravity inform the way we swing an arm, turn our head, or leap across a stream. In many ways, the moving body is our connection to the family of things. Rather than creating movement, we participate in the inherent movement of the planet….
Neurologist Oliver Sacks…considers kinesthesia (sense of movement), our sixth sense, essential to an understanding of self and the world.…..”
— Andrea Olsen
I am a graduate of the first Soul Motion Teacher Training cohort, known as the Pilot Program (2007-2009) in California, and was trained by Soul Motion founder Vincent Martinez Grieco with Zuza Engler. I have been teaching Soul Motion classes and workshops since 2008.
I worked closely with Vincent for 10 years in a post-graduate apprenticeship, assisting workshops and trainings while deepening as a teacher. Together Aletia Anna Alvarez and I developed the Soul Motion Embodied Leadership Program and mentorship program for the early Soul Motion School - a year long personal embodiment training -which we stewarded for several years, and that is still a first step within Soul Motion teacher trainings today.
I am Faculty with the Devon School of Soul Motion, and founder of the emerging Turtle Island School of Soul Motion and Relational Ecology.
In addition to my practice as a Soul Motion teacher, I run a clinical psychotherapy practice specializing in working with folks of all ages healing the impact of trauma and attachment injuries, while offering international mentorship and training for other therapists (Learn more about this practice here).